“Yes, yes. I will faithfully serve you, Master.”
She smiled wryly, her eyes still swollen.
Unexpectedly, everything went according to plan, and she became Leonard Attilley’s apprentice.
“Well done.”
The next day, after officially becoming Leonard’s apprentice, Baron suddenly appeared. Excitedly splashing water, he emerged from a cup.
“I didn’t know Cordelia was such a great actress.”
“Acting? What acting?”
“Your words to Leonard yesterday. Didn’t I say it? To undress a traveler, you need the sun, not the wind. Leonard was restless without you these past few days.”
“Ah.”
Cordelia shrugged, finally understanding Baron’s words.
“That wasn’t acting. I was so angry I completely forgot what you said.”
“Oh dear. Those words were sincere then. You must have been very upset.”
“It’s okay. In the end, it worked out. Now I can finally learn magic.”
Cordelia smiled. At that moment, she was so angry that nothing else mattered.
She thought she was fine, but maybe not. Or perhaps Leonard’s presence was more significant than she thought.
Baron emerged from the cup and approached Cordelia. He smiled kindly.
“Write it all down.”
“What?”
“The people who insulted you. When we leave this mansion, no one will be unharmed.”
“Thank you.”
Cordelia smiled warmly in return.
“But more than revenge, I want to leave with a fair price. I just want to escape this hell as soon as possible.”
“Is that so.”
Baron looked disappointed but didn’t argue with Cordelia’s decision.
Cordelia imagined magic like this:
Moving her fingertips would create a swirl of twinkling stars, and flowers would bloom in the fields whenever her skirt fluttered.
But reality was so harsh it chilled her to the bone.
“Can’t you even do that?”
“Why do you even have a head? Just to cover your neck, I suppose?”
“Do mental arithmetic, not write it on paper. How many times do I have to say it?”
“Ha. What’s the use of seeing the movement of magic power if your brain is like a rock?”
These were the countless remarks Cordelia had endured over just three days.
Sadly, while Leonard was talented in learning, his teaching skills were terribly lacking.
“Come on, just do it! Just do it!”
Cordelia’s temperament was becoming increasingly rough. Leonard’s eyebrow raised in response.
“Aish? Ai, shi? You’ll end up cursing me later, won’t you?”
“What? How could I ever dare to do that to a Master like you?”
Cordelia quickly backed down and smiled at him, then changed the subject.
“But what happened to you?”
“What do you mean?”
“That… how did someone as strong as you get… by your brother…”
“He’s not even a brother.”
Leonard sharply cut her off. Cordelia shrugged nonchalantly.
“Right. So, what happened with that guy?”
“He used my dead mother as bait.”
“What?”
Leonard sat on the windowsill with a bitter smile.
“That despicable guy dug up my mother’s grave and took her remains.”
“Wow…”
An unimaginable act of filial impiety. Cordelia’s mouth fell open as she listened intently to his story.
“And then he used it to set a trap and kill me.”
The sensation of the sharp metal piercing through his body was still vivid. Leonard gritted his teeth.
“Once I get out of here, I’ll tear that bastard into six pieces and throw him to the dogs.”
“Ah, um, yes. Work hard.”
Faced with his daunting words, Cordelia responded awkwardly.
It was a short time, but considering his vile nature, it was certainly no empty threat.
“Tear or feed to dogs, do that after you recover. You barely ate today, right?”
“Don’t even mention that dog food. Just thinking about it makes me sick.”
Moreover, he was incredibly picky about food; if the meat had even a slight smell, he wouldn’t touch it, calling it dog food.
He was a painstakingly difficult Master to serve.
Cordelia clicked her tongue internally and sat down at the desk for the lesson.
While tidying the cluttered desk, she found a thick document titled “Abrams Internal Report.”
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
